Wash-board



(No Model.)

A. R. KIBBE.

WASH BOARD.

No. 3973130. Patented Feb 5, 1889.

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ALONZO R. KIB'B 1,

Oh NEW RICHMOND, \VISCONSIN.

VVASH BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,430, dated February 5, 1889.

Application filed January '7, 1887. Serial No. 223,687. (No model.) 7

ing sockets also of the upright The former upright is constructed in the following manner: As shown in Fig. 3, it is divided over a portion or all of its length into two parts. This divided or separated portion is coextensive with aforesaid rollers scribed.

ALONZO R. KIBBE.

Witnesses:

J ENNIE E. W ETHERBEE, EMMA A. KIBBE.

T aZZ whom it may concern." 8, and is indicated in the drawings at 5. It

Be it known that 1, ALONZO R. KIRBE, a may be hinged at (i to the main portion of citizen of the United States, residing at New the upright 1, with thumb screws for tight- Richmond, inthe county of St. (roix and ening and adjusting the same; or it may 5 State of \Visconsin, haveinvented cm'tain new simplyhe provided with the thumb-screws, as and useful. Improvements in Wash-Boards, may he desired. In this case the hinges of which the 't'ollmving is a specification. would be omitted, as they are not absolutely My invention relates to a wash-board conessential. structed entirely of wood and provided with The thumb-screws 7 maybe of either metal TO rollers over which the clothes to be washed or wood, and they extend through the pormay be rubbed, said. rollers being provided tions 5 and S of the upright, thus binding with suitable journals to adapt them to be them together and holding the rollers safely turned, as will be described. and securely between them.

The rollers are provided with projections \Vhen one of the rollers 3 becomes broken 15 or wings, preferably four in number, on each i or mutilated, the thumb screws '7 may be roller, forming tlnireby the desired and rcquii turned out and the broken member removed site surface or surfaces for rubbing purposes. g and a new one replaced in its stead. The

The uprights of my improved wash-board thumb-screws 7, together with the parts 5, are provided with suitable hearings or sockthen may be set back and tightened into 20 eis, in which the journals or spindles of the place. Iuse this arrangement also for inaforesaid rollers seat and turn, one of the creasing or decreasing the tension onthejonrsaid uprights being formed in such a manner nals of the rollers, as the latter may become that the rollers may be removed it one or worn in the course of time, and may slip too more of them beconm lnoken, and new ones ,"easily in their bearin gs, when it will become 2 5 substituted in their place. This part of my i necessary to tighten them up, as aforesaid. invention also provides for a means of ad- 5 These arrangements, together with the fact j usting the tension onthe:rollcrs,whereby they that I make my wash-board entirely of wood can be tightened orloosened, and canbe made and form my rollers in the way described and to revolve easily or with difficultv, as maybe shown in Figs. 1 and 2, render my invention 0 desired. a very available one for practical and every- Referring to the accompanying drawings, day use. which form a part of this specification, Fig- Having thus described my invention, what ure 1 represents a cross-section. of one of the I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by rollers 0.1: my improved wash-board. Fig. 2 Letters Patent, is- 3 5 is a vertical section of my \\';'LSll-l')01ltl. Fig, In combination with a waslrboard provided is a front elevation of the same. l ig. l is with rollers, a movable portion, 5, coextena side view of upright 1, looking from the sive with the rollers, whereby the removal 0 right-hand side of llig. o; and Fig. is a sec- I and replacement of the rollers facilitated, tion on line .zz, Fig. 2, the rollers not being i hinges 6, connecting the portion 5 at the side -40 shown. to the wash-hoard so that it maybe swung to In the drawings, 1 represents the side or one side of thewash-board, and thumb-screws one of the uprights of my improved wash- 7,screwingintoportion 5 and the wash-board, 5 lward, and 2 the other upright or side. The and adapted to adjust the tension of the porrollers are represented at 3, and are provided tion 5 on the rollers, and whereby the rollers 5 with suitable spindles or journals, 4, as shown maybe permitted -to rotate at different de in l ig. 3. These rollers arc setinto the sockgrees of speed or be rigidly secured to the ets of the upright 1, and into the correspondwash-board, substantially as shown and de- IOO 

